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  1. Re:better idea on Google To Offer Better Medical Advice When You Search Your Symptoms (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As much as self-medicating can be bad, seeing a doctor for a common cold is a waste of time for everyone, unless you are trying to get a sick day.

    It's like my family doctor. We live near the beach, and every summer, there are endless queues of people with sunburns and minor heat illnesses. Come on, do you really need a doctor to tell you that you have to hydrate, protect yourself from the sun and maybe get you some Biafine?

  2. Re:microphone on Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should try to jam the signal by listening to very loud music.
    I'm sure that as long as it is for security, your neighbors will have no problem with it.

  3. Re:No need to on Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Your newly infected MOBO and/or device firmware uses its own driver.

    Can you please extract it and send it to the FreeBSD guys.

  4. Re:Does not has microSD on Amazon's New Kindle Is Only $80, Comes In White, and With More Storage · · Score: 1

    As much as I want microSD on my phone, I don't really care about it for e-readers.
    A typical novel is about 1MB, it means that you can fit about 4000 of them in your typical 4GB eReader. Unless you are into manga, you are unlikely to ever run out of space.
    If you are concerned about sharing, USB-OTG is the think to have. This way, you can just use a USB key, or connect 2 e-readers together using a USB cable.

  5. Re:Wrong! They were made by Jesus on Computer Simulations Point To the Source of Gravitational Waves (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Read a book sometime! The GOOD book!

    This one ?
    https://www.amazon.com/Good-Bo...

  6. Re:No Headphone Jack? No Sale. on Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except that the jack connector is far from obsolete.
    It is used on new products everywhere, in all price ranges, even Apple's earbuds use it. Quality-wise, it is more than enough for stereo audio signals within the range of human hearing, in fact you will be hard pressed to find a high-end headset that uses something else.

  7. 20+ times! You are not really contributing to the death of airbnb...
    What are the alternatives? How did you do before airbnb?

  8. Re:let this be a lesson on Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, consumers rarely care that much about security.
    Poor integration with the browser, lack of accessibility features, poor mobile support, poor support by Adobe (not only about security) all contributed.
    Then Apple stopped supporting its and others followed as HTML5 caught up. Even Adobe stopped believing in it years ago.

  9. Just use a regular TV on LG Sells Mosquito-Repelling TV In India (technobuffalo.com) · · Score: 1

    Just turn on your TV and select any channel dealing with "shopping", "entertainment" or "celebrities". This will either make mosquitoes leave in disgust or make them so stupid they won't remember how to bite.

  10. How can they be "vacuum tubes" at this scale? on Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes (inverse.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A vacuum tube is a macroscopic device. An electrode is heated, electrons shoot out and their trajectory is controlled by charged grids.
    On microchip scales, it's all about quantum physics. Electrons are wave-like, they tend to teleport through obstacles, change size as they are heated or cooled down, really weird stuff. The math probably works but I wouldn't call these things "vacuum tubes" when the very notion of everything that makes up a vacuum tube is challenged at these scales.

  11. The removable back was one of the best features of Samsung smartphones. Too bad they don't do it anymore.

  12. Re:I would care... on E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    e-ink found its way into a $30 cell phone in 2006 (motofone f3), and the screen on the first pebble watch is estimated at $1.69.
    The tech is cheap. It is just that no one bothered making one for Arduinos at a reasonable price.

  13. Re:LOL on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh no it doesn't. It is just that it doesn't make it to the news when some local business gets raided.

  14. Re:Retaliatory much? on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Probably none of it.
    If there is something governments love more than surveillance and censorship, it's money. And Google happens to have a lot of it and do shady stuff with their taxes, that's a good opportunity.

  15. Re:Gets popcorn... on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The ones who don't make children are the most reasonable here. This planet is too crowded already, intensive farming is both what keep us fed and wrecks the planet.
    But this is a bit of a catch-22 : the most reasonable should limit their offspring but by doing so, they will end up being overcrowded by those who don't care.

  16. Re:TLDR: "environment friendly" detergents are a s on Scientists Discover Why Your Dirty Laundry Stinks (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    - we now know why filthy hippies smell that way

    I think additional research is needed before you can justifiably make such generalized claim.

    Additional inside research will probably tell you that hippies smell a strangely moving pattern of yellow, green and blue.

  17. Re:Remarks off base in many ways. on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    It would be great to use water directly, but that's a pretty tight molecule, and despite some unsubstantiated claims, it's unlikely to happen.

    It won't happen, period. Water is a fuel cell waste product, it is burnt fuel, no energy left to extract from it.
    Well, not exactly, water can be used as a fuel, it is just that it can't be oxidized by O2 (it already is) so you have to bring your own oxidizer. And I don't think having a tank of fluorine just so that you can "burn" water is a sane idea.

  18. Re:Stop fighting fate. on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We will probably all speak some bastardized variant of English, something like Nadsat in "a Clockwork Orange".
    Some of the British will probably continue speaking proper English like some the French will continue speaking French but both will be essentially foreign languages to the "world English".

  19. Do like firefox on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is an option for this in Firefox, although it is hidden in about:config
    browser.backspace_action :
    0 : go back one page (the default on Windows)
    1 : scroll up (the default on linux before 2006-12-07)
    2 : do nothing (the default on linux after 2006-12-07)

    I like by backspace binding so on linux I change this. This should be the same for Chrome.

    I don't remember losing form data because of this. The biggest cause of losing data is failed submissions (connection problem, website error, session expired, ...). In case it happens I have Lazarus which saved the day a couple of times. Instead of changing keybindings people are used to, form backup is what Chrome should do, so that you don't lose your data no matter what.

  20. Re:When Patent Time Rolls Around ... on Scientists Find A 'Weak Spot' In HIV That May Pave The Way To A Vaccine (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    He is probably receiving state of the art treatment now. If he ends up completely cured, that's a nice compensation.

  21. On satellites, watts/m2 is very important.

  22. This tests how fast your connection is with Netflix servers. Not your "real" speed if there is such a thing.
    I have gibabit fiber, with Speedtest.net I get 900+ Mbps, which is my real speed when there is no bottleneck.

    In reality it depends on what's on the other side. Fast.com tells me I have 320 Mbps, YouTube gives me less and Steam gives me more. They should call it the Netflix speed test instead of presenting it like some universal truth.

  23. Re:Why not hardware on Theoretical Breakthrough Made In Random Number Generation (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    1- Maybe you prefer a repeatable pseudo-random sequence to real random data. Like for testing, or to make stream ciphers.
    2- Hardware RNGs are often biased, they may for example output a "0" 70% of the time and a "1" 30% of the time. The output needs processing to remove the bias. Combining a biased but truly random generator with an unbiased PRNG can be an effective way to archive this.

  24. Re:Does it bundle.. on Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about KB971033?

  25. Gender gap index is crap on Girls From Progressive Societies Do Better At Math, Study Finds (sciencecodex.com) · · Score: 1

    From wikipedia :

    The assumption is that women are strictly disadvantaged compared to men and as such, only measures where women are traditionally disadvantaged to men are used. Information about gender imbalances to the advantage of women is explicitly prevented from affecting the score.

    You can't get more biased than that.

    Ant the criteria are :

    Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment
    Educational attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education
    Political empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making structures
    Health and survival – outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio. In this case parity is not assumed, there are assumed to be less female births than male (944 female for every 1,000 males), and men are assumed to die younger. Provided that women live at least six percent longer than men parity is assumed, if it is less than six percent it counts as a gender gap.

    The first 3 are fine but WTF about the 4th one. The situation here is better for women so let just bias the score... More importantly, one of the main reason women stay alive longer is because men tend to have more dangerous jobs, do more unhealthy activities and take more risks. In other words, the gender gap itself cause a pro-woman bias in life expectancy. The best country by GGI (Iceland) and the worst (Chad) have about the same difference (4-5%).